Gohmert offers $1 million to whoever finds missing IRS emails

Texas Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert of Tyler and Bill Flores of Bryan have proposed a bill which would award $1 million to whoever recovers the missing IRS emails.

The agency says two years’ worth of former IRS commissioner Lois Lerner’s emails are lost.

“We don’t have a Justice Department, we have a ‘just-us’ — or an injustice department,” said Gohmert. “We know those emails are out there; we know they can be found. We just need the people to help find them.”

The proposed bill also would offer an additional $500,000 to anyone who has information on who destroyed the emails.

Gohmert called the claims of the IRS losing the emails because of old equipment as “ridiculous.”

Along with the monetary bounty for recovering the emails, Gohmert proposed a 20 percent reduction in salaries of IRS employees until the missing emails turn up.

Attorney General Eric Holder has received criticism from Republicans for the IRS investigation, criticism which escalated in November when Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, proposed articles of impeachment for Holder. The movement has gained much support from Texas lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

“You’ve got to have an attorney general that’s serious about justice and this one is not,” said Gohmert. “He will not produce, he helps hide material, I think he needs to go, I think even he won’t resign we need to impeach him. He’s got to go.”